At last a decent day!

[TPeers]

I'm well chuffed! Pursuaded TOH to depart with both kids for the entire morning and got a decent day in the garden!

One 4'x8' bed completed PLUS once he got home he actually helped! He cut the sleepers for the other beds and helped me to move several long sleepers. So one long edge and both short edges of the 4'x16' bed now have their sleepers in place and I can start in on the digging!

..... that said I'm now totally creamed.....

..... a nice bath and a glass of wine I think

How has everyone else got on today?

Terry

[veg4681]

A good day it has been but not a particularly productive one for me. A pathetic bonfire that didn't burn down a massive pile of garden waste that has been accumulating since last year . I think it's too wet with the rain we've had.

Should have done the digging instead for a new bed (11 feet x 3 feet) right next to my existing raised bed (13 feet by 3 feet). It won't be raised bed again but I like the sound of sleepers, no complex assembly etc and my DH won't want to make me a raised bed AGAIN for the hard, back breaking work ahead.

[Tracey]

Hi

It's been lovely here today aswell. I've cut the grass, racked up the last of the leaves and we made a chimney to go into the centre of the compost heap. I'm worn out now - but in a good way, like a kid feels when they've come in after playing out all day. looking forward to tomorrow.
Glass of wine in hand now and OH is making a curry for tea.
Hope everyone else enjoyed today.

[piskieinboots]

yep, excellent day here

We hit the lottie at 1000hrs and continued with the fencing, base for shed going down tomorrow

Happy girl

[TPeers]

Sleepers are great - not cheap, and can be hard to move, best done with help!

I did a web search to find a local supplier and find the best price so got mine at £16 + vat each plus a milage amount which I think was in the region of £15-£20. That was a few years back now, I made one enourmous bed about 8' by 16' and 2 sleepers high - not ideal as you had to walk on it and I could never find the time to work the whole thing with all the building work and kid number 2 and so on that have happened in the last 4 years.

So now I am having a 'garden year' and redesigning everything. I've put in a 2'x18' border against the fence into which three pear trees have gone, underplanted with asparagus and the big veg bed is being split into three smaller beds, a 4'x8', a 4'x12' and a 4'x16' - as much for the decorative appearance as the usefullness!

[shirlthegirl43]

I managed to weed the asparagus bed and top dress with the remains of a bag of farmyard manure. Removed the turnips that hadn't formed a decent veg, picked some brocolli. Planted mushrooms (hope they will grow in the farmyard manure rather than horsey poo), planted my nectarine tree and put it in the greenhouse (coz I don't know how warm it had been kept), also finally planted the bulb of garlic that has been sitting with inch high shoots for weeks waiting for a dry day! What a bonus to have a dry, sunny day for my birthday - it usually hisses down!

[Winged one]

It sounds like you all had very good and poductive days yesterday. I sat at my puter for the day, trying to get inspiration and get some typing done (I did actually start on methodology though - 600 odd words was better than nothing).

Today, I am looking at lots more sunshine with envy. But I have been a bit more all-round productive today. There are 2 loads of towels on the line, and my huge big towelling dressing gown. I did the food shopping this morning. I bought compost and some module inserts.

And I planted some leeks, tomatoes, courgettes and brocolli in the modules and some pots!! They are currently sitting on the playroom window ledge - pushed well back behind a doll's house so that the toddler hopefully won't go exploring when she comes home tonight (OH took her off to visit both sets of grandparents for the weekend to let me work).

Right now, I am back at the puter and have put another couple of paragraphs into the method chapter, with more ideas floating around that seem to make sense. So if I do another 1,000 words, I will treat myself to a nice walk on the pier before it gets dark.

[seasprout]

Sunday. Glorious weather, sunny and mild. Is this really Jan.

Look what I photographed today. (Not mine may I add.) (i wish though)

[Flummery]

Spent yesterday with our son in Scarborough. Managed to pop into a fantastic fabric shop and bought some for the backing of a quilt that our internet group are making for the Group Quilt section at the Festival of Quilts in August. (Bigmouth who said 'Why don't we do one' has the job of making it up!) Also went into their Wilko's and got some spud fertiliser (had none in ours) and a bag of stuttgarter giant onion sets. Lovely sunny day for a walk around hilly Scabbers!